XF 1.3A few transitional questions

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I posted a while back with some pre-sales questions and since then I've made the jump and have been running a test site for the past few weeks, with the import of our vBulletin database having gone smoothly and the design work coming along nicely.

I've found good replacements for most of the forum functionality we rely on so think we're close to ready to make the move, but just have a few questions remaining from my initial post.

Allowing users to see their own deleted posts, we did a code modification on vBulletin, but haven't been able to find a way so far of achieving it with XF. We find it a good way of communicating with members to have their posts/threads not just vanish.

Likewise, is there an option to name the specific moderator on an 'edited by' statement. Again as it allows users to contact the moderator that acted on their post directly.

And can someone assist in getting our vBSEO urls converted over to Xen?

Thanks again for everyone's help - spending the time looking around here has solved the majority of the problems and has me quite confident in pulling off the move successfully.

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I found this tool for doing the conversion - http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/ - however I get 'Unsupported url format.' for the forums - and when I apply the other redirects to the htaccess file, they don't seem to do anything. I've got the redirection scripts in place.

Some examples:
/forums/general-chat/ is /forums/forums/general-chat.5/ on Xen
/forums/general-chat/introductions-21709-6.html becomes /forums/threads/introductions.21709/page-6

I'm mostly concerned about old links in posts working, so if links to specific threads are working that's probably enough. Search engines should pick up the changes to the new urls fast enough I'd have thought?

I can't see anything in that file that's relevant to page numbers, just the import log table and the address of the files. I've tried the showthread.php file manually, putting in ids and a page number, and no luck there either, though I noticed that my rewrite was wrong in passing it a 'page=' instead of 'p=', but that didn't seem to change anything.

Would I perhaps have better luck using this tool and trying to manually replace the urls in posts over to the format of the XenForo links, rather than trying to rewrite?

That's again weird - I must have somehow truncated that file or something because I downloaded the redirection scripts again and it's there in the archive, but wasn't in the file on the server. I've reuploaded all of them as well and now I've got them working.

Thanks again - I'm so close now .

I noticed while doing that the in page anchor tags are '#post-1979365' vs the '#post1979365' from vB, so I've added in an anchor tag to add in the version without a dash, and now those post links are working to take me straight to the right post on the right page.

Another thing I've noticed is that the '/forums/goto/post?id=1662551' syntax works to find individual posts, which we have linked to with a /forums/1979365-post4758.html format - how would I rewrite that?

Ended up being the one I needed. Now both styles of links are pointing to the correct posts.

I also managed to figure out the other thing in my original post - I've ended up setting the permission for being able to see deleted posts/threads, and then using the templates to then hide other user's deleted posts/threads from non-moderators. It's probably bad in terms of efficiency, but has got the job done.

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Completed this migration successfully today - thanks again for the help.

Thought I'd note something I ran into as an issue in case it assists someone else - because vBulletin 3.8 doesn't/didn't seem to in my installation, process png attachments for thumbnails, I was getting caught up while migrating the attachments. I had tried going through and deleting them - but I crashed back with an error every few ticks.

Ended up making a change to the /library/XenForo/Image/Gd.php file, adding a failover for the imagecreatefrompng method. I put a placeholder png image in the internal_data/temp folder, and got the image to be created from that in the case the first attempt failed.